Example sentences of "have a [adj] enough [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both men took heavy blows and by withstanding the best of the American 's punches Mason at least emphasised that he has a strong enough chin . |
| 2 | Although he has a large enough income to support them both , he puts most of it into a building society and also invests money in shares . |
| 3 | Will I have a good enough share of time if I allow myself to listen first and tell second ? |
| 4 | I think that Rocky & Deane will have a good enough rest of season to get then squad places |
| 5 | ‘ We needed uplighters , but we did n't have a regular enough ceiling grid for low-voltage halogens , so we had to use high-frequency fluorescents . ’ |
| 6 | As a father I do n't have a colourful enough vocabulary . |
| 7 | Having appealed against East Herts ' refusal of listed building consent , they withdrew from a public inquiry at a late stage after their intended expert witness informed them that they did not have a strong enough case . |
| 8 | Do we have a strong enough case to challenge the Revenue ? |
| 9 | In the school system , many teachers do not have a strong enough grasp of the language to teach in it effectively . |
| 10 | The computer should have a large enough memory ( RAM ) for the programs you want to run on it , and operate fast enough for your needs and temperament . |
| 11 | They did n't have enough people with them , they did n't have a big enough army . |
| 12 | The European Commission is having a hard enough job getting all its members to clear out the same few channels so that Europe can have a paging system which could be used in any of its countries . |
| 13 | All major WordPerfect products will be developed for IBM OS/2 2.0 Although technically superior to Microsoft Windows and even offering Windows 3.0 software compatibility , OS/2 suffers from not having a large enough software base and not yet having reached a critical mass of users . |
| 14 | It seems , then , that the list of linguistic features to be counted is indefinitely large , if we want a quantitative description of a text to have a fine enough mesh to catch the linguistic details which contribute to readers " feeling for differences of style . |
| 15 | ‘ You seem to have a fair enough command of the English language . |
| 16 | If , as you approach retirement , you become aware that you are not going to have a big enough pension to live as comfortably as you would like , you might seriously consider the possibility of making additional voluntary contributions . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm working on instinct , ’ he said thickly , ‘ but I 'm a fast learner , and I 've a good enough idea how to keep you in line . |
| 18 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , even if their cosmology , like that of all religions , was expressed in fantastic terms , the Siberian natives , like the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of any land , had a rational enough view of the world which surrounded them , in addition to a wealth of practical knowledge about the forest and its fauna , and about crafts and hunting techniques . |
| 20 | If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that . |
| 21 | Speed : Had a quiet enough game including the goal . |
| 22 | More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities . |
| 23 | In fact she had been approached by wealthier men than Jonas , whose interests in her were sometimes honourable but mostly not , and she had a realistic enough sense of her attraction not to be ruffled by anything her cousin could say . |
| 24 | If you have a strong enough army of voluntary workers you can conquer the world , or even turn the People 's Republic of Islington blue ! |
| 25 | Opposite top left : If you have a large enough bathroom , you may be able to keep the sink separate from the bath , so that two or more members of the family can use the bathroom at once . |
| 26 | If the rational expectations hypothesis is correct we should find , provided that we have a large enough sample , that the coefficient estimated on each variable in equation ( 3.3 ) is approximately the same as the coefficient estimated on the same variable in equation ( 3.4 ) ; that is , β 1 should equal γ 1 , β 2 should equal γ 2 , and so on . |
| 27 | Birds are somewhat stupid creatures and have a hard enough job even coming to terms with the ordinary , let alone the extraordinary . |
| 28 | Women have a hard enough time — being a ‘ house-husband ’ in most circumstances would be a struggle as the majority of men would be unable to find the support that women get amongst their peer group . |
| 29 | It may well be , in any case , that we now have a high enough proportion of school-leavers in cap and gown . |